Archive for September 2009

Alaska Coast Eroding Fast

Alaska Coast Eroding Fast

Sep 25th, 2009 | By Rebecca | Category: Featured Articles, News

The Beaufort Sea’s coastline is disintegrating at alarming speed.

Permafrost cliffs are tumbling into the ocean and melting away, and now the process is caught on a new video of time-lapse photographs.

“It could be related to some of the changes that are happening and that have been reported in the Arctic, like declining sea ice in the summer and increasing sea temperatures,” says a scientist studying the coast.



Mountaintop Coal

Mountaintop Coal

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Rebecca | Category: Video



Tiny “T. Rex” Found — 150-Lb Species Came First

Tiny “T. Rex” Found — 150-Lb Species Came First

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Rebecca | Category: News, Science

The 150-pound Raptorex “was running things down, dispatching them with its powerful jaws, and clutching them with its two-fingered hands”—the same hunting strategy that apparently worked for 6-ton T. rex.



Narrow Torture Probe, Loud Critics

Narrow Torture Probe, Loud Critics

Sep 4th, 2009 | By Rebecca | Category: News, Politics

Dick Cheney and others oppose a decision to review interrogations that may have overstepped even more lenient legal guidance of Bush-administration lawyers.